Words Come before Seeing – Technology Literacy Narrative Reflection

But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. —–John Berger Ways of Seeing In my technology literacy narrative, I discussed how technology has influenced and challenged our ways of seeing, our ways of communication, and thus our ways of life. The different “rhetorical situations” between conventional media and new media prompted me to …